@Andrew-Porter posted:I understand all the supposedly hateful Japanese-themed interiors were covered over and/or demolished during WW2. I can barely remember what the place looked like. I was in SE Michigan to see my brother and visit my father's gravesite, I think in 1976. And my last visit to the area was maybe 5-6 years ago, when plans were announced to demolish Redford High School and replace it with a Meier's. Here's a photo of my Dad at Redford—he was a teacher and coach, when the school was whites only:
Unfortunately it was the other way around. Hatred towards Japanese culture during WW2 led to the owners of the theater painting over or covering everything within the theater to avoid a loss of business. The Motor City Theater Organ Society members have been painstakingly restoring it back to the pre-WW2 condition ever since the mid-1980s.
There aren't too many places where O gauge trains run in a Japanese garden beneath a "starry night sky" 
